Electronic Corrosion Control in Pulp and Paper Plants

The pulp and paper industry has been at the forefront of inducting computer process control equipment into its operations. In this highly competitive, energy and chemical intensive industry, it has been necessary to maximise operating efficiencies and productivity, thus they have become increasingly dependent upon sophisticated electronic process control systems.

Although the need for computerisation is great in the pulp and paper-making process, the operating conditions are not conducive for electronics. High humidity, corrosive gases and particulate contaminants are characteristic of the pulp mill environment endangering the operation of virtually all electronic devices.